Astarte's Fire

I registered this domain name ages ago, when I only had one child… since then I’ve had FOUR more and earned a Master’s Degree, so time for fandom stuff has kinda skidded to a halt. I still have these rabid plot bunnies, however, and so I decided to try to move them to a more easily shared place than the hand-HTML-coded website I’d had before and so here is a nice little WordPress-backboned website for anyone who stumbles upon it.

My stories are still on phoenixsong.net (I am one of the co-founders of that site). I plan to repost the stories that are on there over here (working on a way to make that happen without so much comment spam), as well as stuff that hasn’t gone through their beta process (I have my own process/resources including actual editors who are local “real-life” friends of mine, and don’t want to take up the fandom resources when I know I will be unreliable about giving back to that community due to family demands).

My interest is more in what was going on in the background during the stories instead of what we see with the main characters. My primary fandom is Harry Potter but (because of my children’s interest becoming my own) it has expanded into Doctor Who. I am also working on several original fiction pieces (under a different pen name that I don’t want linked to any of my other identities for privacy reasons), and other sundry life stuff, so I’m not necessarily going to be posting here by ANY definition of regularly… but I’m recommitting to try (note that the last update was sometime in 2012 before my fourth child was born, so don’t hold your breath too much).

So… welcome to my hearth… pull up a squashy chair and something interesting to read (even if it’s not something I or J.K. Rowling wrote) and make yourself comfortable. If you’ve got something to share, please do… if it’s interesting enough and you want to hang around enough, I might even give you access to post your own stuff.

Astarte